{"id":6870,"date":"2013-11-13T13:23:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2013-11-13T13:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:23:41","slug":"michael-carper-13-classics-major-into-tech-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/11\/13\/michael-carper-13-classics-major-into-tech-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Carper &#039;13 &#8212; Classics Major into Tech Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael Carper &#8217;13<\/strong> was a Classics major at Wabash, and now he&#8217;s a Tech Analyst at the managed IT services company <strong>Apparatus<\/strong> in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.techpoint.org\/blog\/indiana-technology-news-2\/how-a-classics-degree-turned-into-a-career-in-tech\">Click here<\/a> to read the Techpoint.org online article about Michael&#8217;s natural progression from studying Classics to a career in Information Technology.\u00a0 In between, he used his Wabash class experiences and internships as a student to achieve his position with Apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>In the Techpoint article, Michael states, \u201cThe Latin and Greek studies help me with syntax and understanding how logical languages, including computer languages work.\u00a0 I think all the liberal arts research and writing made me a good investigator, a problem solver, and that\u2019s what IT is all about &#8212; collecting data, asking questions and deep diving to solve problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6871\" title=\"wabash ment at apparatus  carper\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/11\/wabash-ment-at-apparatus-carper-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/11\/wabash-ment-at-apparatus-carper-.jpg 375w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/11\/wabash-ment-at-apparatus-carper--300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2013\/09\/23\/where-to-find-what-you-need-to-know\/\">Wabash Men at Apparatus <\/a>include:<\/em> Chris Rozzi &#8217;90, Aman Brar &#8217;99, founder and CEO Kelly Pfledderer &#8217;96, Michael Carper &#8217;13, Ben Frame &#8217;03, Michael Tucker &#8217;93, Brad Vest &#8217;11, artist-in-residence Prof. Greg Huebner H&#8217;77, Eric Borgert &#8217;97, Matt Vest &#8217;08, and Sam Spoerle &#8217;13.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Classics Prof. Jeremy Hartnett &#8217;96 for the news tip!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Kim Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Carper &#8217;13 was a Classics major at Wabash, and now he&#8217;s a Tech Analyst at the managed IT services company Apparatus in Indianapolis. Click here to read the Techpoint.org online article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}